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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[8 October 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 309
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
8 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.259-260, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
8 October 1876
Source of text:
Newcastle University Library, Special Collections: SW/1/20/2, Spence Watson/Weiss Archive
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 36
Summary:
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 269
Summary:
Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 October 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 862
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 347
Summary:
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 17
Summary:
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 218
Summary:
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 190
Summary:
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 195
Summary:
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
12 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.256-258, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 66–7
Summary:
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159
Summary:
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 October 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous reports 7.7, Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1856-74 (MR/411), ff. 32-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry Smith
Date:
14 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/1/14/1 f.51, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
This letter appears to be a draft copy, it is not signed by Joseph Dalton Hooker, though it is written in his hand, & it contains extensive corrections & struck through text. JDH writes to [William Henry] Smith regarding a potential conflict over the HMS 'Challenger' expedition collections, which he fears may arise between the scientific staff of the expedition & the British Museum. His fears stem from correspondence sent to the Royal Society by the Admiralty & Treasury. JDH offers his services as a mediator to head off this dispute as he knows the parties involved & has experience dealing with scientific expeditions. He asks to be put in contact with anyone at the Treasury who takes an interest in the matter.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
16 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.100, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 423–4
Summary:
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
